subsequently to a judgeship in New Orleans, he removed there to reside.  This appointment he did not continue to hold for any length of time, his popularity being such as to point him out as a fit person to contest with Mr. Livingston the seat in Congress then filled by the latter.  In this contest he was successful, and continued to represent the district until he was chosen Governor.  He filled this chair for the constitutional period of four years, and immediately upon the expiration of his term, he was again elected to Congress.  He continued to represent the district until the treachery of a family, numerous and ignorant, yet influential with their ignorant, uneducated neighbors, caused him to be beaten.  They succeeded subsequently in placing one of their family in his place, only to show the triumph of folly and stupidity over worth and intelligence.  Yet this cross of an Irish renegade upon an Acadian woman was a fit representative of a large majority of his constituents.

The climate of Washington operated injuriously upon his constitution.  Long accustomed to that of Louisiana, it failed to resist the terrible winter-climate of Washington, and he found his health broken.  He returned to his plantation, on the Bayou La Fourche, where he lingered for a year or more, and died, in the meridian of life, leaving a young and interesting family.

Governor White was a man of great eccentricity of character, but with a ripe intellect, and a heart overflowing with generous emotions and tenderness.  He loved his kind, and his life was most unselfishly devoted to their service.  Like all who have for any time made her their home, he loved Louisiana first of all things.  He was too young when coming from his native land to remember it, and his first attachment was for the soil of his adoption.  He was reared in the midst of the Creole population of the State; spoke French and Spanish as his mother-tongue, and possessed the confidence and affection of these people in a most remarkable degree.

Governor White was a passenger on board the ill-fated steamer Lioness, in company with many friends, among whom were Josiah S. Johnston, (the elder brother of A. Sidney Johnston, who fell at the battle of Shiloh,) and Judge Boyce, of the District Court.  Josiah S. Johnston was, at the time, a Senator in Congress.  Some miles above the mouth of Red River, and in that stream, the boat blew up, many of the passengers being killed, among whom was Judge Johnston.  Governor White was terribly burned, and by many it was thought this led to his death.  His disease was bronchitis, which supervened soon after this terrible disaster.  The steamer had in her hold considerable powder.  This, it was said at the time, was ignited by the mate of the boat, who had become enraged from some cause with the captain.  The body of Judge Johnston was never found.  The boat was blown to atoms, with the exception of the floor of the ladies’ cabin.  The upper works were all demolished.